At the suspect's remand hearing, the judge said he was “an embarrassment to the rest of Israel’s citizens.”
Poland’s ambassador to Israel has reportedly been attacked in a Tel Aviv street in an apparent racist assault.
The Times of Israel named the attacker as Arik Lederman, 65. He has since been released from custody. At his remand hearing, Lederman’s attorney explained his client had gone to the Polish Embassy to ask about Jewish property abandoned in Poland during and after the Holocaust. In ordering Lederman’s release, Judge Alaa Masarwaa said the case was not complex and that the suspect would not be able to obstruct the ongoing investigation. “There is no doubt that an assault and spitting at a diplomatic personage is contemptible,” Masarwaa wrote. He said the incident “makes the [assailant] an embarrassment to the rest of Israel’s citizens.”
Relations between Israel and Poland have become somewhat frayed over the past year or so, as a result of a new law passed by the right-wing government in Warsaw criminalizing any suggestion of Polish complicity in the Holocaust. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the Polish government of “distorting the truth” and “rewriting history” with the new law. In February, Morawiecki pulled out of a trip to Israel after Netanyahu suggested Poles collaborated with the Nazi invaders.
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